Posted by hobbsy:
Monday, 18th January 2010 at 6:42am |
News Adam Buxton is currently starring in The Persuasionists, a BBC2 sitcom set in the world of advertising. The first episode ‘Cockney Cheese’ aired at 10pm on Wednesday 13th January 2010, but if you missed it you can watch it via the BBC iPlayer
If you cast your mind back seven months to the last time I updated this fansite (sorry about that btw!), you might recall my blog post offering free audience tickets for this sitcom. The show was previously known as ‘The Scum Also Rises’ and was filmed at London Teddington Studios over a six week period in June and July. Here’s some more info on the show lifted from the BBC minisite for The Persuasionists:
COCKNEY CHEESE
Episode Synopsis:
Sitcom. Marketing an unusual dairy product is the challenge for HHH&H’s best creative minds, but the client is terrifying and Greg is too scared to even stay in a meeting with him. Can Emma help or will creative Billy have to break a golden rule of advertising and actually meet the client?
Cast:
Jarred Christmas (Clive)
Simon Farnaby (Keaton)
Daisy Haggard (Emma)
Iain Lee (Billy)
Lee Ross (Cockney Jim)
Gemma Whelan (Josephine)
Roxanne McKee (Christine)
Natalie Gumede (Susie)
Shola Adewusi (Cleaning Lady)
Adam Buxton (Greg)
Tristram Shapeero (Director)
Jon Rolph (Producer)
Jonathan Thake (Scriptwriter)
» Click here to watch The Persuasionists episode 1 – Cockney Cheese on the BBC iPlayer
You can read more about the episode on the BBC Comedy Blog
The second episode The Handsomeness airs on BBC2 at 10pm, Wed 20th Jan.
Feel free to discuss this week’s show with other A+J fans on our forum or leave a message below
Update: here’s a clip from the BBC’s YouTube channel:
Posted by admin:
Tuesday, 2nd June 2009 at 3:56pm |
News 
Adam Buxton is set to star in a new TV sitcom ‘The Scum Also Rises‘ alongside Iain Lee and Daisy Haggard. Six episodes are being recorded in front of a live audience at Teddington Studios – and you can grab yourself free tickets to the filming, courtesy of sro audiences. The first show is being filmed this Thursday (4th June).
Here’s how the programme is described:
THE SCUM ALSO RISES
A sitcom about the flaky, shaky, fakey “creatives” who work in the advertising industry. Underworked and overpaid, they’re the people who spend all day trying to persuade you to buy things you don’t want with money you don’t have. They’re scum.
There’s Billy, who’s smart and funny and STILL works in advertising; uncontrollable urge-bag Keaton; neurotic, spoiled Emma; boss Clive, the most Australian man on the planet; and hopeless, witless, feckless Greg – who wants to be as ambitious and amoral as his friends, but can’t seem to manage even that.
Come and see the show that reaches the parts other comedies cannot reach…. Because you’re worth it.
Starring Adam Buxton (Adam and Joe), Iain Lee (The 11 O’Clock Show) & Daisy Haggard (Man Stroke Woman), The Scum Also Rises will be taping at Teddington Studios during June & July.
Booking is now open so if you’d like to join us, then apply now!
This show will take place on Thursday evenings during June & July 2009
The venue is Teddington Studios, TW11
The nearest station is Teddington, approx 30 mins from Waterloo
The doors open at 7.00pm
Tickets are limited so apply quickly.
The minimum age for the show is 16 years
The dates filming will take place are:
Thursday 4th June 2009
Thursday 11th June 2009
Thursday 18th June 2009
Thursday 25th June 2009
Thursday 2nd July 2009
Thursday 9th July 2009
» Click here to book free tickets to ‘The Scum Also Rises’
(More info is available at sroaudiences.com)
Interestingly it seems the pilot for this show was broadcast on BBC3 a couple of years ago (28th May 2007) with Adam playing Greg.
The cast list for the 2007 pilot was:
Mr Broom – Chris Barrie
Keaton – Kevin Bishop
Greg – Adam Buxton
Billy – Tom Price
Producer – Iain Morris
Author – Jonathan Thake
Read a less-than-complimentary review of the pilot on tvscoop.tv. There’s also a discussion of the show on sitcom.co.uk.
Thank you to forum member lazybones for posting this news and info (and benjula for additional links). Head over to our forum to discuss the show and filming
Posted by admin:
Tuesday, 19th May 2009 at 10:46am |
YouTube Adam and Joe forum member skiptotheend aka Chris Bowles has created this incredible YouTube animated video detailing the origins of the "Stephen!" phenomenon (that you may have heard up and down concert venues this year, and probably will do at festival campgrounds all summer)
Check out the video below, or via this direct link to the YouTube video
Posted by admin:
Tuesday, 12th May 2009 at 12:15am |
News The Sony Radio Academy Awards took place in London tonight (Monday 11th May 2009)
The Adam and Joe Show on BBC 6Music was nominated for 4 awards, and they have won Silvers (ie. 2nd place) in three of the categories: Comedy, Entertainment and Competition. They didn’t come in the top 3 for the Listener Participation Award.. so as lazybones points out in our forum Text The Nation clearly isn’t the ‘Nations Favourite Feature’ :)
Congratulations to Adam and Joe !!
Feel free to discuss this great news in our forum
Music Awards > The Entertainment Award
SILVER – Adam and Joe
Presenters: Adam Buxton, Joe Cornish & Garth Jennings
Executive Producer: James Stirling
Producers: Claire Slevin, Jude Adam & Ben Appleyard
Broadcast Assistant: Charlotte Guzzan
6 Musics Adam and Joe have developed the must listen show for radio cognoscenti. Great creativity, quirky humour and detailed preparation make this the best current weekly music and entertainment radio offering.
BBC Audio & Music for BBC 6 Music
General Programming Awards > The Comedy Award
SILVER – Adam and Joe
Presenters: Adam Buxton, Joe Cornish & Garth Jennings
Executive Producer: James Stirling
Producers: Claire Slevin, Jude Adam, & Ben Appleyard
Broadcast Assistant: Charlotte Guzzan
Adam and Joe never exclude, but rather invite the listener to join them in a parallel universe. Their show combines banter, creativity, honesty, self-deprecation and the comedy song.
BBC Audio & Music for BBC 6 Music
General Programming Awards > The Competition Award
SILVER – Adam and Joe – Video Wars
Presenters: Adam Buxton, Joe Cornish & Garth Jennings
Producer: Jude Adam
Interactive Editor, BBC2 & 6 Music: Clare Hudson
Assistant Producer: Claire Slevin
Assistant Content Producer: Jane Long
An ambitious and innovative entry, delivered at a particularly challenging time at the BBC for competitions. The entry made use of a digital network in new ways and resulted in high quality entries from listeners. A strong and successful interactive dimension and overall offer, very much in tune with the sound and appeal of the programme and the network.
BBC Audio & Music for BBC 6 Music
General Programming Awards > The Listener Participation Award
NOMINEE – Adam and Joe
Presenters: Adam Buxton, Joe Cornish & Garth Jennings
Executive Producer: James Stirling
Producers: Claire Slevin, Jude Adam & Ben Appleyard
Broadcast Assistant: Charlotte Guzzan
Interactive Producer: Jane Long
Adam and Joe are self confessed big kids. They have unashamedly made a living out of not wanting to grow and get proper jobs. As such they represent a nation of 30-somethings who believed ‘Back to the Future’ when it promised hover boards, believed we would be flying our cars around by now and who still think of themselves as part of a Jedi Generation! Balancing this ongoing disappointment with the world around them, whilst at the same time viewing their surroundings with the amazement of a child seeing fireworks for the first time, is what Adam and Joe are all about. The topics are vast, the discussion is fast paced and often equally as dumb as it is genius. They are a mass of contradictions and about turns, which is what keeps the listener engaged and more importantly guessing what will happen next.
BBC Audio & Music for BBC 6 Music
Here are the winners:
THE ENTERTAINMENT AWARD
GOLD: Chris Evans Drivetime – BBC Radio 2
SILVER: Adam and Joe – BBC Audio & Music for 6 Music
BRONZE: Tim Shaw’s Absolution – Absolute Radio
Christian O’Connell – Absolute Radio
Geoff Lloyd – Absolute Radio
THE COMEDY AWARD
GOLD: Count Arthur Strong’s Radio Show! – Komedia Entertainment & Smooth Operations for BBC Radio 4
SILVER: Adam and Joe – BBC Audio & Music for 6 Music
BRONZE: The Now Show – BBC Radio Comedy for Radio 4
606 with Danny Baker – Campbell Davison Media for BBC Radio 5 live
Miranda Hart’s Joke Shop – BBC Radio Comedy for Radio 2
THE COMPETITION AWARD
GOLD: Facebuck$ – Galaxy Network Imaging for Galaxy (Manchester, Birmingham, Yorkshire & North East)
SILVER: Adam and Joe – Video Wars – BBC Audio & Music for 6 Music
BRONZE: Win Your Wedding – CFM
Heart’s Tankety Tank – Heart (West Midlands)
Radio City Makes Your Day – Radio City
THE LISTENER PARTICIPATION AWARD
GOLD: Electric Radio Brixton: Daily Show – Prison Radio Association & Electric Radio Brixton for Electric Radio Brixton
SILVER: Iain Lee – Absolute Radio
BRONZE: Stephen Nolan – BBC Radio 5 live
Adam and Joe – BBC Audio & Music for 6 Music
Sadie Nine’s Loud Women – BBC Essex
Check out the Full list of Sony Radio Awards winners 2009
View photos of the arrivals and photos of the winners (unfortunately no sightings of A+J yet on the paparazzi sites)
Posted by admin:
Tuesday, 28th April 2009 at 10:46pm |
Photos Here are some photos (pinched off the BBC 6Music website) that show Adam and Joe broadcasting live from the Camden Crawl, alongside their lucky 20 Elite Black Squadron members (who won tickets to the recording of the show last week!). All 20 received an exclusive and official Adam and Joe Stephen!/Just Coming t-shirt (only 50 made apparently) and mug
Adam and Joe in The Market Bar, Camden
Stephen! Elite Black Squadron members come prepared for mobile Stephenage.
Elite Black Squadron members kitted out in matching Stephen! T-shirts…
Dr Buckles shows off his sore thumb.
Black Squadron member Matthew displays his painful minor injury – a piece of crayon lodged in his eyebrow!
Dr Buckles points out the crayon tip embedded in Black Squadron member Matthew’s eyebrow.
View the BBC 6Music Adam and Joe Camden Crawl gallery
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